917 1 basically split skating down the middle. The world met marketable members of the Most Productive Crew, Logan's friend Aaron Loreth and Hugo Boserup in a tight 36-minute trek. Genesis was featured with a reverence people would soon come to understand. Aidan's part was so cool he quit the team out of embarrassment. I would use this video to explain to people that there is a separate John Wilson riding around New York with a run-and-gun camcorder, but the skate one is dating a supermodel so it's never been hard to explain. Old fans got a realization of Alex Olson's listing project, watching a capital B Board company rise from the ashes of his Know Wave skate podcast Skate Wise (run, essentially, by frequent guests: a teenage Cruz Mendez, artists Aurel Schmidt and the Iggy guy, and Mike G of the late Lotties) and a few weird tour clips. The skating's so good that the wacky music and 'homie moments' are legitimized - this video continued the constant arguments that the 2014 Supreme video started about the quality of pro skating. Angsty 40-somethings online get very frustrated when they are forced to watch someone do something that isn't super hard, especially if they're smiling or something. A lot of this skating shit is parasocial; it always has been. If you can't develop those one-sided relationships with random LA kids you've never or nearly met, it might bore you. At the same time, you can't really like, network to meet them, no matter how close you are in Kevin Bacon terms because it'd be disappointing. You're not a Kpop stan but you are an adult who plays with a toy.
917 2 basically didn't happen. It's the last great handsome crazy white boy video. A beautiful elegy to a zombie board brand. Everyone quit the team a year after. What is 917 without Hugo's horse stance, Genny's band, Nik fucking boosting through things. Everyone gets a good song - and then one or two more alright ones. 550 god Vincent Touzery's part is blended like a DJ Kicks, and it's a tad scary. Like doing a night at Sublimate and watching like, Rob Dyrdek in Memory Screen in the Uber home. Cyrus skates to Thin Lizzy - I don't think he's ever missed in that regard. Not as a pro.
Limosine full length's chock full of dads, including the sponsored debut of Santino, leaving the confines of the Aiden Mackey guest trick. There's a proper Genny part that isn't Jesse Alba dadcam or Hardbody-filmed. Its best part is a girl's (though Nelly is white, incredibly handsome and does seem a bit crazy - see the post-trick Monster chug and Gifted Hater-homie clip affinity for that awful looking blue prefab park with the rainbow rail.) Early grab NBD down Brick 9 has been stuck in my head since I saw it. Thought Stu Kirst would get to it first. To be frank, Cyrus skates to a really good song but his part isn't that wild. He was injured all last year. And Max is clearly working through ideas. Max is jazzy - in the last decade, we've gotten 9 minutes of footy from him every 1.5 years and 7 of them are him just trying shit out. Previously the Kilty McBagpipe - Gonz's midair hippy jump, nosebonks with 360s out of them, skating junk. Now he's pushing the losi grind. I think he had one in 917 1. Taking them to crook spots. Going around the bendy bench at Museum of Natural History. It's interesting. It really captures him, from what I've read and the one time Nate and I watched him skate Blue.